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theancientwayoflife · 3 months
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~ Eccentric Flint in the Form of a Scorpion.
Place of origin: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, or Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Culture: Maya
Date: A.D. 600–900
Medium: Stone, Chert
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queenfredegund · 26 days
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Women in History Month (insp) | Week 1: Leading Women
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ltwilliammowett · 5 months
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A Byzantine Merchant vessel wreck found in Yenikapı, Istanbul, Turkey, 2004. It is from the 7th century A.D.
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city-of-ladies · 1 month
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Kōgyoku/Saimei (594-661) was Japan’s second empress regnant according to the traditional chronology, with the notable particularity of having reigned twice.
Her first reign ends in blood
Though stable during Empress Suiko’s reign, the court reverted to a state of unrest after her death. Emperor Jomei, died without designating a successor. To put an end to the power struggles, his widow, Princess Takara, was chosen in 642. She was 49 years old and would thus be known as Kōgyoku Tennō.
As the region was hit by a severe drought, Kōgyoku prayed and the rain fell. She thus won her subject's respect.
In 645, her son, Prince Naka no Ōe , killed minister Soga no Iruka in front of her in the throne room. Kōgyoku knew nothing of the plot. As she confronted him, her son explained that Iruka was guilty of treason. 
The empress left the scene and abdicated two days later in favor of her brother Kōtoku, with Naka no Ōe becoming heir apparent. 
In 654, Kōtoku died of an illness and his sister took the throne again as the 37th Tennō, called Saimei. 
A mediator and a builder 
Saimei fostered international relations by sending envoys to Tang China and opening exchanges with the three kingdoms of Korea. She undertook many building projects to show the prosperity of her realm and receive foreign envoys.
Many of those buildings were made of stone. However, not all her projects were met with approval. Such was the case of a facility with an imposing stone wall and necessitating the manual digging of a canal. It nonetheless seems that this canal had two purposes: irrigate the fields and form a moat that would deter enemy invasions. 
At the end of her life, Saimei planned a military to help the kingdom Korean kingdom of Baekje against Silla and China. She was at Tsukushi, readying her troops, when she died at age 68. Before passing away, she told her son Naka not to waste a great amount of labor in building her tomb.
The navy suffered a terrible defeat after her passing. Her son Naka no Ōe would later rule as emperor Tenji.
A loving grandmother
Saimei played an important role in politics by achieving peace between rival factions. She also raised her granddaughter Jitō, who would become a powerful empress in her own right. Extremely saddened by the death of her grandson prince Takeru in 658, she asked to be buried beside him and wrote two poems:
Above the hill 
At Imaki 
If even a cloud
Would only appear, 
Then why should I grieve? 
I did not think of him 
As being a mere child, young
Like the young grass 
By the river bank, where they track
The wounded deer. 
Like the foaming waters 
Of the Asuka river, 
Moving on ceaselessly:
Without pause
Does my mind dwell on him
And:
Though I cross the mountains 
And sail over the seas, 
I shall not forget
The happy 
Times in Imaki. 
 The salt current 
At the river mouth 
Flows back into the sea:
With darkness at my back,
 Must I go, leaving him behind? 
Must I go, 
Leaving behind
My beloved young child?
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Further reading:
Toshio Akima,  "The Songs of the Dead: Poetry, Drama, and Ancient Death Rituals of Japan"
"The story of Empress Saimei"
Aoki Michiko Y., “Jitō Tennō, the female sovereign”, in: Mulhern Chieko Irie (ed.), Heroic with grace legendary women of Japan
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mapsontheweb · 6 months
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After almost four centuries of peace and prosperity under Rome, Britain faced an onslaught from pagan aggressors. Only Ireland was spared. Historians dispute their intent but agree on their identity—the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes—and that they came to stay.
by NatGeoMaps
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2001hz · 10 months
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the asuka period (538-710c), Kuse Guze Kannon first half 7th century buddha. Location: Ikaruga, Nara, Japan, Hōryū Temple
wood plated with gold, crown bronze open work gilt. made in the image of Prince Shōtoku himself.
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thatshowthingstarted · 5 months
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Byzantine Mosaic, Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Palestine,
5th to 7th centuries AD,
Salman al-Nabahin, a Palestinian farmer, unearthed the mosaic pavement, thought to date from the fifth to the seventh century AD, while working in his olive orchard in Bureij refugee camp, about half a mile from the border with Israel.
Trying to understand why some trees had not properly taken root, Nabahin said he and his son began digging. Then the son’s axe hit something hard and unfamiliar in appearance.
The Palestinian ministry of tourism and antiquities said the mosaic included several panels depicting animals and other features of social life during the Byzantine era, the continuation of the Roman empire in eastern provinces from the fifth century.
Gaza is rich in antiquities, having been an important trading spot for civilisations dating as far back as the ancient Egyptians and the Philistines depicted in the Bible, to the Roman empire and the Crusades from the 11th to the 13th centuries.
Several discoveries have been made in recent years. Due to a lack of funds and expertise, Gaza has usually invited international groups to help with the process of excavation and preservation.
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dutch-wanderlust · 6 months
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fuckyeahcostumedramas · 9 months
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Aiysha Hart as Princess Hind & Anthony Mackie as Hanzala in Desert Warrior (Film, TBA).
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vox-anglosphere · 10 months
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Venerable Bede's 7th century manuscript 'On the Reckoning of Time'
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memoriae-lectoris · 6 months
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Ireland, the last country in Western Europe to legalize divorce in the twentieth century, was also the last country to make it illegal in the Middle Ages. If an Irishman told secrets about his wife’s sexual performance, for example, this was considered good reason for her to leave him. Long after the Church was forbidding people elsewhere in Europe from divorcing, Irish husbands and wives were still going their own way at will.
Women were not necessarily impoverished by divorce in the medieval world. Because no one in the Middle Ages ever claimed that the man was the main breadwinner, a divorced wife was entitled to a percentage of the household estate in line with the labor she had contributed to it. Irish jurists ruled that divorcing women deserved a percentage of the farm’s lambs and calves since wives kept the animals, made the wool into cloth, and turned the milk into cheese and butter.
In tenth-century Wales the king declared that a divorced man could have the pigs because he normally kept them in the woods near home, but the wife got the sheep because she took them to the highlands during the summer. The husband got the drinking cups and the chickens; the wife got the milk and cheese-making equipment, along with the flax, linseed, wool, and butter.
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theancientwayoflife · 1 month
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~ Bird ornament.
Date: A.D. 600–800
Place of origin: Guatemala or Mexico, Mesoamerica
Culture: Maya
Medium: Shell
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medievalart · 1 year
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Byzantine necklace and earrings
About AD 600
British Museum
London, June 2022
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artschoolglasses · 1 month
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Merovingian belt buckle, 600-700, France
From the Victoria & Albert Museum
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theimaginauts · 1 year
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DAHIA AL-KAHENA
Art by MICHAEL BROUSSARD
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mapsontheweb · 13 days
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Ethnicities of 7th century Iraq
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